Improvement in anti-friction metals



UNITED STATES- PATENT OF -10E.

ononen s. HUNT, 0F SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT-IN ANTI-FRICTION METALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,163, dnted February25, 1 7

To all whom it may concern: 7

lie it known that I, GEORGE S. HUNT, of the city and county ofSacramento, State of (lalitbrnia, have invented or discovered a newUombination of Metals for Producing an Anti- Friction Metal or Alloy;and I do hereby declnre that the following is a true description of thesome, together with the names of the ditl'erent metals employed informing my alloy, and the proportions of each to be used.

My invention relates to a new and useful combination of metals for thepurpose of producing an alloy suitable for lining axle-boxes and otherfrictional surfaces as an anti-friction metal, and which I call I X Lmetal.

My newelloy consists in the combination of the following metals, in theproportion given:

Lead, live (5) pounds; antimony, one l) pound plumbago, one (1) ounce.

This combination gives a soft metal for frictional surfaces which ismuch superior to the ordinary Babbitt metal.

Having described my inventionor discovery,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l v Ananti-friction metal compounded oi" the materials above mentioned, in theproportions

